Best food writing 2005 / edited by Holly Hughes.

Includes index.

As Asian as apple crumble / by Gina Mallet -- Food without fear / by Dan Barber -- Two Americas, two restaurants, one town / by Rebecca Skloot -- Big cheese / by Cynthia Zarin -- I married a restaurant critic / by Nancy Grimes -- Diatribes for dinner / by Jay Rayner -- Berry Bonanza / by Rick Nelson -- Extending the olive branch / by Dai Huynh -- Gardens on the mesa / by Eugenia Bone -- Killing dinner / by Gabrielle Hamilton -- To win a cook's heart, butter her up / by Suzanne Martinson -- Where's the nutella? / by Mort Rosenblum -- 1 tsp. of prose, recipes to taste / by Judith Jones -- Cool cucumber / by Greg Atkinson -- The count and I / by Emily Kaiser -- A question of taste / by Monica Bhide -- Pucker power / by Dara Moskowitz -- The pantry forager / by Pete Wells -- New Loaves rising / by John Kessler -- On the side / by Rick Nichols -- When French women bake / by Dorie Greenspan -- Bittersweet / by Melanie Thernstrom -- The gentle rise of (real) cake / by Lisa Yockelson -- Bitter alchemy / by Deirdre Heekin -- Big and beautiful : lafite for 12 / by Eric Asimov -- An ode to hangover cures / by George Singleton -- Crab rangoon and bongo bongo soup / by Colman Andrews -- Sci-fi cooking tries dealing with reality / by Frank Bruni -- See food / by Jason Sheehan -- Osso buco me? Osso buco you! / by Robb Walsh -- Where you'll sing for your supper / by Emily Green -- Back to the bayou / by Rick Bragg -- Street food : Jamaica / by Barry Eastabrook -- A sonnet in two birds / by John T. Edge -- Some like it extra hot / by David Ramsey -- It's to die for / by Brett Anderson -- The last burger stand / by Jonathan Gold -- Eat it while it's hot / by Diana Abu-Jaber -- Food that makes you happy / by Ruth Reichl -- Mr. Clean / by Patrick Kuh -- Quintessential Californian / by Thomas McNamee -- Grilling with the steak whisperer / by David Leite -- Hickory house memories / by Rick Bayless -- Norwegian wood / by Margit Bisztray -- Wok fragrant / by John Thorne -- Brisket brought us together / by Karen Stabiner -- One-room wonder / by Evan Rail -- Many happy returns / by Monique Truong -- Expatriate games / by John Burnham Schwartz.